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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 8, 2015, 5:38 AM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 8, 2015, 9:00 AM EST. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 8, 2015, 5:38 AM EST (10:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 8, 2015, 9:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2015, 9:34 AM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1339 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
888 WHUS42 KMLB 081038 CFWMLB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 538 AM EST SUN FEB 8 2015 FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-090000- /O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0002.150208T1400Z-150209T0000Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA- NORTHERN BREVARD- 538 AM EST SUN FEB 8 2015 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THE RISK WILL BE AT ITS HIGHEST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNSET. * IMPACTS...A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS MEANS SWELL CONDITIONS WILL SUPPORT STRONG AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS CAN BE LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
1 follow-up statement
355 WHUS42 KMLB 081434 CFWMLB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 934 AM EST SUN FEB 8 2015 FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-081545- /O.CAN.KMLB.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-150209T0000Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA- NORTHERN BREVARD- 934 AM EST SUN FEB 8 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. CALLS TO LOCAL BEACH PATROLS THIS MORNING INDICATE RIP CONDITIONS ARE NOT AS HAZARDOUS AS YESTERDAY. HOWEVER A LINGERING SWELL WILL KEEP A MODERATE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG AREA BEACHES ESPECIALLY INTO THE AFTERNOON DUE TO TIDAL INFLUENCES. CHECK WITH OCEAN RESCUE ON LATEST SURF CONDITIONS WHEN ARRIVING AT THE BEACH AND ALWAYS SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. $$ WEITLICH
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.